This truth fand honest Tam o' Shanter, As he frae Ayr ae night did canter: (Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a town surpasses, For honest men and bonie lasses). O Tam! had'st thou but been sae wise ...

Auld Ayr ran by before me, And bicker'd to the seas; A cushat crooded o'er me, That echoed through the braes. Although written in Burns time at Mossgeil, this poem wasn't published until 1808 when ...